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Unaware of a peace treaty signed two weeks earlier, General Andrew Jackson stopped a British attack at the Battle of New Orleans. British forces suffered 2,036 casualties; US forces suffered eight men killed and thirteen wounded.

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The Treaty of Ghent, signed by American and British diplomatic representatives on December 24, 1814, at Ghent, Belgium, brought a technical end to the War of 1812. The treaty returned both nations to the pre-war status quo, calling for all captured territory to be returned to the country that had possessed it before the war. It did not address the problems that precipitated the hostilities, but allowed for joint commissions to negotiate the northwest boundary dispute. The dispute regarding fishing rights and naval forces around the Great...